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Botany of Empire
- Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Engelsk Paperback
Botany of Empire
- Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism
Engelsk Paperback

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An accessible foray into botany's origins and how we can transform its futureColonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as queer studies, Indigenous studies, and the biological sciences to explore the labyrinthine history of how colonialism transformed rich and complex plant worlds into biological knowledge. Botany of Empire demonstrates how botany's foundational theories and practices were shaped and fortified in the aid of colonial rule and its extractive ambitions. We see how colonizers obliterated plant time's deep history to create a reductionist system that imposed a Latin-based naming system, drew on the imagined sex lives of European elites to explain plant sexuality, and discussed foreign plants like foreign humans. Subramanian then pivots to imagining a more inclusive and capacious field of botany untethered and decentered from its origins in histories of racism, slavery, and colonialism. This vision harnesses the power of feminist and scientific thought to chart a course for more socially just practices of experimental biology. A reckoning and a manifesto, Botany of Empire provides experts and general readers alike with a roadmap for transforming the colonial foundations of plant science.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9780295752464
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0295752467
Udg. Dato:
25 jun 2024
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato:
25 jun 2024
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